Tag Archives: Youth

Nostalgia For Guantanamo

Posted on April 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth | Leave a comment

Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai | Leave a comment

Legacy Rehashed

Posted on September 4, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Sort of random with a bit of truth in the cervices: Legacy Rehashed by Michael Romani If we could drag the future Out into the past If feelings could somehow nurture All the things that didn’t last If we could … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aspersions, Beginning, Blunder, Cervices, Details, Diamonds, Drops, End, Family, Fantasy, Friend, Future, Hand, Harmony, Hope, I, Kiss, Legacy, Love, Nurture, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Rehash, Reply, Rough, Star Crossed, Strife, Tales, Tomorrow, Truth, Unabashed, Wells, Winning, Wonder, You, Youth | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Blind

Posted on September 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There are none so fully blind As those who think they truly see Beyond the illusions of our minds Into the unfiltered and pure reality Losing those things that make up conscience As we stand here blinded by science Somehow … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Assertions, Blind, Conscience, Daily Prompt, Dogma, Filters, Free, Illusions, Key, Minds, None, Perceptions, Principles, Reality, Reliance, Science, See, Think, Truth, Youth | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Index

Posted on July 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

She asked me to index the reasons why Clear evidence for God seems in short supply But she should believe in Him anyhow And though patient, she wanted these reasons now She told me of her friend who was her … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Belief, Daily Prompt, Evidence, Flower, God, Index, Love, Music, Mystery, Power, Preacher, Proof, Reasons, Sacred, Sight, Teacher, Truth, Youth | Leave a comment

Resonance of Youth

Posted on May 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Resonance of Youth by Michael Romani The angst felt In the hand dealt Was both deadly and dreamy While awkwardly steamy Remembering those days And all of our crazy ways Can be a semi-poetic meditation Too often subject to repetition … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adoration, Angst, Awkward, Better, Bliss, Crazy Ways, Depression, Labored Motivation, Memories, Nervous Wrecks, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resonance, Sacred, Scars, Surreal, Sweet, Thoughtless, Together, Wistfulness, Youth | Leave a comment

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Conjure

Posted on February 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

In these dark, crazed and often turbulent times We have turned our minds to more wicked rhymes Violence and anger of every kind spread with persistence It somehow has gotten to the point of pondering existence Or so it seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Conjure, Daily Prompt, Dissonance, Injury, Meaning, Persistence, Presence, Reverberation, Shamanic, Turbulent Times, Unrepentent, Wicked Rhymes, Wordpress, Youth | Leave a comment

First Principles: America’s Youth Must Always Remember Its Noble Inheritance

Posted on September 6, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged America, Fidelity, First Principles, Heritage, Improved, Inheritance, Joseph Story, Noble, Youth | Leave a comment